Kneel Before Pod

The bridge crew consisting of myself (Craig), Sandy, Angus and Natalie reassembled to complete our discussions of the rebooted Star Trek films by talking about Star Trek Beyond. The review of the film can be found here.

Please be advised that there are significant spoilers for the film but the audio does forewarn you of that so there's no chance of accidentally being spoiled when listening. There are some audio issues from Angus and Natalie mostly due to a dodgy internet connection but the majority of what they said still comes through clearly enough.

Show Notes

Very little extra media to be looked up was discussed but here's a link to an article on where the USS Franklin fits into the Star Trek canon

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Clay Liford, director of Slash, a personal favourite of mine from this year's Edinburgh International Film Festival was kind enough to catch up with me (Craig) and talk about the film as well as the other parts of his career ahead of his appearance at San Diego Comic-Con.

Slash trailer

Show Notes

There are a number of links to check out related to the film that I've posted below:

• Official Slash twitter account

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Recently Jeff Teravainen was able to give up some of his time to talk to Craig about his life and career. Jeff is currently starring as Lieutenant Anders on the SyFy show Dark Matter reviewed on this site by Aaron. Fans of the show will recognise him as Lieutenant Anders. People may also know him as Agent Stack on 12 Monkeys.

He had a lot to share about his life and career including his time as the frontrunner of a band and his interest in palaeontology. I hope he has a lot of success in his career and that his auditions go well.

The discussion didn't lend itself to a lot of referencing so the show notes in this case are really light but I hope you enjoy listening to what he had to say.

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Jeff shared a candid photo with his daughter after the interview

Following the short clip promoting the new Star Trek TV series; now titled Star Trek: Discovery myself (Craig), Sandy and Nick Cook who runs the fan web series Intrepid to have a chat about a very short clip that meandered into other somewhat connected conversations complete with background noise of a TV and a cameo from Nick's daughter Sam.

Speaking of Star Trek: Discovery - you can find the preview clip below:

Show Notes

It's just a quick discussion to show how excited we are and toss in a few theories. As always there were some things talked about that bear linking to:

• Star Trek Phase II information

Lastly, here are some images of Ralph McQuarrie's concept art that clearly inspired the ship shown in the preview clip.

Ralph McQuarrie Enterprise Another angle 5sdjzadu

And another

Another milestone has been reached for Kneel Before Blog. The website is now on 1000 posts and I'm absolutely delighted by the progress that has been made to get us here.

Kneel Before Blog is something that I started on my own but over the years I have recruited other people to help me by supplying other content. The website wouldn't be at this stage without that help so a lot of credit should be given to Aaron, Angus, Natalie, Gwen, Jordan, Simon, Urfa and Graeme for taking time out of their lives to provide their own takes on media that they have consumed.

For the 1000th post I really wanted to celebrate the team rather than myself because it's 1000 posts of collective content rather than just me so Gwen suggested the idea of doing a podcast where people can listen and "meet the team" so to speak. I thought it was a great idea and decided to try to make it happen.

As you might expect not everyone could make it but Aaron, Gwen, Natalie and Angus managed to make themselves available for a live discussion and Graeme was able to record his input as well so we had a decent showing.

I personally wanted to enjoy the celebration so I handed over hosting duties to author Stewart Bint who was kind enough to step in at the list minute. You can find him on twitter or on his own website. His job was to keep things moving along and he did it wonderfully.

The whole thing is pretty self indulgent but since it's a celebration I'd say it fits nicely. Hopefully people can listen along and get an idea of who the people behind the articles being read are. We had a great time doing it and hopefully people will get something out of listening to it. If not then it's something just for us.

Not everything went perfectly because nothing ever does. I personally had a cold which explains why I sound more ridiculous than usual and there are some audio issues that creep in here and there as well as my phone going off early on because I forgot to put it on silent but everything came together well considering.

Show Notes

This podcast was recorded on Friday 13th May, 2016 because I thought the 1000th post would come around quicker than it has so I didn't expect to wait over 2 months to finally share this with people so there are a number of things that have already happened in the meantime:

• The podcast has since launched due to the timing of the release of Star Trek Beyond meaning I had no choice but to put up the discussions on Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness

Graeme discussed a few books so find some links to more information below:

• Drew Magary - The End Specialist

I don't have much else to say other than I'm grateful for all of the help I've had and I hope there will continue to be interest in reading the site as well as listening to the podcast.

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Happy listening

After our discussion of Star Trek (2009) it only made sense to talk about Star Trek Into Darkness. Natalie, Angus, Sandy and myself (Craig) got back together to discuss the divisive sequel and come to some form of consensus on what works and doesn't work about it.

This is the second podcast so all feedback is welcomed and we already know that the overall length has to be trimmed down into something more manageable but that is a work in progress. Stay with us and watch us improve.

Show Notes

There isn't all that much in terms of extra media that you should look out but I did mention that the Honest Trailer for this film was worth watching. You can find this here.

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Happy listening.

Kneel Before Blog is branching out into the Podcast world and what better way to begin than talking about the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies.

On the panel for this particular discussion were me (Craig), Angus, Natalie and Sandy who all had differing opinions on this entry into the Star Trek franchise. The discussion went on longer than expected and there are a couple of audio problems but I would say it's a solid first attempt.

Show Notes

There were a few things brought up that you might be interested in looking up. I've linked them below:

Captain Kirk is climbing the mountain

The Picard Song

Frozen Parody

Shatner saying sabotage

The final visual for audiences to consider is the image of Kirk playing his dead brother Sam from the Original Series episode "Operation -- Annihilate"

They're practically twins

Happy listening and all feedback is welcomed.

I had the opportunity to interview several people involved with the film Jet Trash. In attendance were actors Osy Ikhile and Robert Sheehan as well as director Charlie Belleville and producer Andy Brunskill.

Each of them were kind enough to give me their time and talk openly about the film. There are plenty of good anecdotes about drugged cows and other general silliness that went on in the making of the film.

Jet Trash had its world premier in Edinburgh as part of the Edinburgh International Film Festival which was a real treat for director Charlie Belleville as he got to bring his work home and show it in his home city. There isn't much else to say beyond what it said in the various interviews so I hope you enjoy.

My interview with Osy comes first followed by the Charlie and Andy coming in at 07:10 and Robert Sheehan closes it off starting at 21:55. They all had plenty to say so I was more than happy to talk to them.

Recently I had the opportunity to catch up with Clancy Brown in a round table scenario. He was attending the 70th Edinburgh International Film Festival to promote the 4K restoration of Highlander. He did a Q&A at the screening, attended a Ceilidh and generally enjoyed being back in Scotland after being away for so long.

Joining me on the round table were Matthew from SciFiNow, Dave from Hop and Pop (hasn't launched yet), Michael from Screenkicker, George from an outlet I can't make out from the audio and Claudia from Film News UK and MovieStar Magazine.

Everyone had an opportunity to speak and Clancy was more than happy to answer any questions. I'm ashamed to say that I couldn't think of the actress who played the animated version of Lois Lane despite how formative I found that animated show. It was, of course, Dana Delaney. How could I forget that? In fairness, Clancy did too.

The 4K restoration of Highlander looks stunning and can be seen a few more times throughout Scotland over the next couple of months. I have listed the places and links to buy tickets should there be any left:

15th July - 18th July - Belmont FilmHouse Aberdeen

18th July -21st July - Edinburgh FilmHouse

It is also screening in the Eden Court Inverness from 29th August but it doesn't look like there are listings for that yet. It is also available to own from July 11th from all major outlets.

Lastly here's a picture of me with the man himself.

Recently I had the opportunity to join in a round table with Kevin Smith and his daughter Harley Quinn Smith. I was fortunate enough to be one of the few who managed to get a question in.

In the round table Kevin's career as well as his current film Yoga Hosers was discussed among many other things.

Joining me in the experience were Adam Mulgrew of seensome.com, Kat Morley of catmorley.com/cutoutandkeep.net, Michael Boyd of Screenkicker, Louise Saul of The Big Glasgow Comic Page, Awais Irfan of oasisawais.com, Michael Spangenberg of nochnfilm.de and a few others that I didn't note down.

It was a great round table and I'm glad that the audio could be salvaged for you to hear because it's worth listening to. A few of us had the pleasure of an informal chat with Kevin after the event that was such a great experience.

Kick back, have a listen and enjoy the endless chatter.